In hoc uolumine haec continentur. C. Suetonij Tranquilli XII Caesares. Sexti Aurelij Victoris à D. Caesare Augusto usq[ue] ad Theodosium excerpta. Eutropij De gestis Romanorum lib. X. Pauli Diaconi libri VIII ad Eutropij historiam additi. Index reru[m] memorabiliu[m] p[er] singulos Tra[n]q[ui]lli Caesares ab Ioa[n]ne Baptista Egnatio Veneto co[m]positus. Annotationes eiusdem Egnatij in omnes Tranquilli Caesares. Annotationes etia[m] Erasmi in Suetoniu[m], Eutropiu[m], & Paulu[m] Diaconum per literarum ordinem
Suetonius (c.69-c.122)
Category
Books
Date
1521
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3071167
Summary
Bibliographic description
[60], 320 leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 7063. Quires C-H (containing the critical comments of Egnatius and Erasmus) bound at end following leaf 320. Illuminated initial letters throughout in gold with red ink outline. Contemporary manuscript marginal markings (three dots and a wavy line) and underlining of text on leaves m3v-m4v, m6r, n3r, o6v, r8r-s1v, s3r, s5v-s6v, s8v-t3r, t6, t8r, u2, u4r-u5v, x3r-x6r, x8r-y4v, y7r-z2v, and z4. Provenance: Jean Grolier (1479-1565). Later sixteenth-century manuscript inscription written in ink on recto of first front fly-leaf: "Claudii gueyte et amicorum" [Claude Gueyte]. John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer; Bridges' library was sold in London, 7 Feb. 1725/26. Lot 2644 in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]). Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire; Ellys bought a number of books at the Bridges library sale in 1726. Manuscript capital letter written in ink at head on recto of first front fly-leaf: "S" (found in a number of Blickling's books but unknown as to what it means). Twentieth-century pencil code on recto of first front fly-leaf: "B42". Old manuscript number written in ink at head on recto of vellum third front fly-leaf: "75". Old manuscript inscription written in ink at head of title page: "emptus no assib…"[?]. Old manuscript inscription written in ink at head on verso of vellum third rear fly-leaf: "Gueyte". Binding: bound in Paris by Jean Picard (fl. 1539-1547) for Jean Grolier (cf. A. Hobson. Renaissance book collecting, Appendix I: Grolier's bindings classified by workshop, pp. 223-229, IV, France, 1538-1547, (c) Jean Picard, (i) With solid or open tools, p. 227); formerly attributed to Claude de Picques (cf. H.M. Nixon. Bookbindings from the library of Jean Grolier, no. 26, tools C. de P. 2, 3, 5, *a & b, 11, 16, 34a & b). Full dark green goatskin, blind and gold-tooled; double gilt fillet and blind thin-thick-thin fillet panels, central small rectangular panel with, inside and outside, gilt curves and solid arabesque tools, gilt roundel tool in corners of large panel; title 'C. SUETONIVS | TRANQ. | SEX. AURELIUS | VICTOR. | EVTROPIVS.' tooled in gilt in central panel on upper cover; Grolier's ownership inscription 'GROLIERII ET AMICORUM' tooled in gilt at foot on upper cover; Grolier's motto 'PORTIO MEA DO | MINE SIT IN | TERRA VI | VENTI | VM' tooled in gilt in central panel on lower cover; single gilt fillet on board edges and turn-ins; original spine with five raised bands and two half bands, panels outlined with single gold line, the vertical lines some way in from the joint; brown leather title label 'SUETONIUS, VICTOR, EUTROP: &C.' tooled in gilt on second panel on spine, imprint 'AP: ALDUM 1521' tooled in gilt in third panel; gilt edges; front and rear endleaves consist of a vellum pastedown, followed by a pair of blank paper leaves (one folded sheet), a vellum leaf conjugate with the pastedown, and a pair of blank paper leaves (one folded sheet). Pencil inscription in the hand of Cecil Clarabut (the National Trust's first Libraries Adviser) on front pastedown: "Repaired at Cambridge, 1955". Stored in brown buckram book box.
Makers and roles
Suetonius (c.69-c.122), author Eutropius (fl.4th century), author Paul the Deacon (c.720-c.799), author Sextus Aurelius Victor (c.320 - c.390), author Giovanni Battista Egnazio (c.1478 - 1553), editor Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), commentator Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer